5: Robert Blake

Marcia Clark Investigates The First 48

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The wife of Robert Blake, a famous Hollywood actor, was murdered in cold blood as she waited in their parked car outside of a restaurant. Police suspected Blake of committing the murder, but the story only gets more complicated from there. Featuring reporter Eric Leonard, and jurors from Robert Blake’s criminal trial, Roberto Emerick and Chuck Safco.

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0:00.0	This Podcast
0:01.4	contains explicit language.
0:02.5	Listener discretion is advised.
0:04.8	The following program presents an examination of a criminal investigation.
0:08.7	Any individual who may have been investigated or faces criminal charges continues to be considered innocent
0:14.4	until proven guilty.
0:16.4	911, what's your emergency?
0:17.4	My granddaughter has been taken, she has been listened for a month.
0:27.0	Her head, it's bleeding severely.
0:33.0	This is severely.
0:34.0	We need an ambulance.
0:38.0	This is Marsha Clark Investigates the First 48, the podcast.
0:45.0	I want to thank you for sending in some really great questions on the Chandra Levy case.
0:50.0	I'll answer them when we do our mailbag at the end of this show.
0:53.4	Now let's get into this week's case.
0:55.8	If somebody would have asked me who is Robert Blake I wouldn't have known.
0:59.4	The only thing I would know him from was the little rascals.
1:02.6	Robert Blake was a Hollywood fixture with a career that began in the late 30s and
1:06.9	included starring roles in films such as In Cold Blood and the popular TV show
1:11.9	Beretta. But by the 90s he'd largely dropped off the radar
1:16.0	until he wound up as the prime suspect in the murder of his second wife
1:21.0	Bonnie Lee Bakley on May 4, 2001.
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